E-resources and databases
starting with "B"
- BAILII (British and Irish legal information institute)
A free resource containing 90 databases from 7 jurisdictions including British and Irish case law and legislation; European Union case law; Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
- Balance of Payments Statistics
This economics resource provides access to statistics from the International Monetary Fund, concerning international economic transactions data and International Investment Position with history from 1960. Part of the IMF eLibrary Database.
- Balinese Manuscript Collection Index
Provides a searchable index to the Balinese Manuscript Collection housed in the Menzies Library.
- BAR Digital Collection
The Bar Digital collection includes titles from both the Bar British and Bar International series. The collection encompasses all periods from prehistory, through classical archaeology, to 20th century archaeology around the globe. These are presented in data rich monographs, edited collections of paper, excavation and site reports and conference proceedings
- Biblio: a review of books
As India's leading literary magazine, it carries essays, satire and review articles by experts on subjects ranging from literature and the social sciences, to all fields of culture, cinema, and various forms of social and political expression.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
Covers all subjects, especially humanities and the social sciences, pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. The most important 100+ periodicals in Asian Studies identified by BAS staff are indexed immediately, but the total number of indexed journals is many times that amount.
- Bibliography of British and Irish History
Provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, the British Empire, and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available (from 55BC to the present). The Bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals. There are also links to online book reviews and, from 2019 onward, the Bibliography has carried information about printed reviews of the books that it lists.
For more information on how to use this product please see the BBIH Help pack.
- BioOne Complete
This database provides access to over 200 subscribed and open-access titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. It offers subject coverage of agriculture and agronomy, biodiversity conservation, ecology, entomology, environmental sciences, evolutionary biology, geology and paleontology, marine and freshwater biology, ornithology, plant sciences, veterinary sciences and zoology.
- Birds of the World
Birds of the World is an ornithological research platform that brings together scholarly content from several celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds.
- Birds of the World The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Birds of the World is an ornithological research platform that brings together scholarly content from several celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds.
- Blackwell Reference Online
Blackwell Reference Online (BRO) has been incorporated into Wiley Online Library. BRO provides full text access to handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias and concise companions in the social science and humanities area, bringing together the world's leading scholars to cover the latest research in their fields.
- Bloomsbury and Faber Screenplays and Criticism
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond – containing books, screenplays, overview articles and learning resources from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, the British Film Institute, Focal Press and Auteur (LUP). It comprises an exceptional collection of award-winning screenplays, critical and contextual books on film from the late nineteenth century to the present, and an interactive timeline of cinema history.
- Bloomsbury Collections
The Australian National University has access to Bloomsbury Open Access titles plus these archive collections:
- Comparative Law, Legal History and Legal Studies
- Constitutional and Administrative Law
- Human Rights Law
- International Law
- Legal Philosophy
- Bloomsbury Cultural History Core Collection
The Bloomsbury Cultural History Core Collection offers an authoritative survey of a wide range of subjects throughout history. Each subject is looked at in Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age and thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so that users can either gain a broad overview of a period or follow a theme through the ages.
The ANU has access to the Cultural Histories of: Animals, The Human Body, Childhood and Family, Sexuality, Gardens, Women, Food, The Senses, Theatre, and Comedy.
- BMJ OnExamination
BMJ OnExamination provides online exam preparation for healthcare professionals. Since 1996 they have provided revision resources to over 210,000 doctors and health professionals from more than 100 countries. Resources include recent exam themes and core questions which are aligned to curriculum, and are written at the correct difficulty level.
- Books@Ovid Purchased eBooks
The database includes full text, references, updates, and graphics from a variety of publishers in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology.
- Brill online books and journals
Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences, and offer a range of E-Books, journals and reference works. Brill journals are also indexed in Web of Science and Scopus indexing and abstract services.
- Brill primary sources: Climate change and law collection
This comprehensive collection of climate change and law documents contains original source, non-edited and non-redacted “grey literature” (non-peer reviewed) in English, centered on climate change and the law. Incorporated in the category of ‘law’ is any discipline of law which addressed climate change, including corporate law, environmental law and human rights law. Materials in the collection originate from a wide range of organizations in the public and private sector, institutions, and/or individuals, world-wide.
- Brill's New Pauly Supplements Online
The resource brings together major reference works for the study of the ancient world and its reception in later centuries, including comprehensive lists of rulers and dynasties as well as biographies of scholars throughout the age. The reference works include:
- Brill’s New Pauly
- Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 1 : Chronologies of the Ancient World - Names, Dates and Dynasties
- Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts
- Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 3 : Historical Atlas of the Ancient World
- Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 4 : The Reception of Myth and Mythology
- Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 5 : The Reception of Classical Literature
- Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 6 : History of classical Scholarship - A Biographical Dictionary
- Der Neue Pauly
- Bristol Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1770-1917
The Bristol Presentments are bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships which docked in the port of Bristol in South-West England. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports, usually foreign produce carried on foreign vessels. The second records exports, usually produced or manufactured in Britain and destined for foreign markets. This collection thus provides an insightful overview of global trade from the onset of the industrial revolution to the height of the First World War.
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries From 1500-1950
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in pages of diaries and letters, including primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Enables in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database.
- British Archaeological Reports Digital Collection
The Bar Digital collection includes titles from both the Bar British and Bar International series. The collection encompasses all periods from prehistory, through classical archaeology, to 20th century archaeology around the globe. These are presented in data rich monographs, edited collections of paper, excavation and site reports and conference proceedings
- British History Online
Access to some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Source documents include Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords, guides and calendars, gazetteers and dictionaries, and maps.
- British Labour Party Papers, 1906-1969
The Labour Party was founded in 1900 to represent the interests of trade unions and working-class voters. In political terms, it has often been characterised as a “broad church”, encompassing a range of left and centre-left viewpoints.
This collection contains minutes and related records compiled by the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) during the period 1906-1969. These records cover the party’s formative years, from its creation and early successes through the governments of Ramsay MacDonald and the wartime coalition to the Atlee administration and Harold Wilson’s first premiership.
The records provide an insight into the PLP’s often divided outlook on several important domestic and international political issues, including: the campaign for women’s suffrage; the Great Depression; the first and second world wars; the Beveridge Report and the emergence of the post-war welfare state; Britain’s nuclear weapons programme; imperialism and decolonisation; and Britain’s potential membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).
- British Library (British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books)
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Its collection of over 170 million items includes artefacts from every age of written civilisation, from books, newspapers to sound recordings, patents, prints and drawings, maps and manuscripts.